Donald Charles Cameron (politician)

Donald Charles Cameron

Sir Donald Charles Cameron KCMG DSO (born November 19, 1879 in Brisbane , † November 19, 1960 ibid) was an Australian officer, politician of the Nationalist Party of Australia and Member of Parliament .

biography

Cameron was the son of John Cameron (1847-1914) from British Guiana (now Guyana ) and Sarah Annie, nee Lodge, from New South Wales .

He attended school in Toowoomba and his hometown and then worked as an employee at the Queensland Meat Export and Agency Co., where his father was director at the time. In 1899 he went to Europe and then to Asia, where he joined a US infantry regiment during the Boxer Rebellion in China . In 1901 he joined the Australian Army and served in the South African War .

From 1902 to 1914 he ran the family business Kensington Downs with his brothers. On February 18, 1914, he married Evelyn Stella Jardine, a granddaughter of John Jardines (1807-1874) and joined the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War , where he last held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel . For his service in the Palestine campaign , he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Order of the Nile , and was appointed Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.

In 1919 he won the election for the seat of the constituency of Brisbane in the Australian House of Representatives , which he held until his health-related retirement in 1931. In 1932 he was named Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.

From 1934 to 1937 he was a member of the Lilley constituency in the House of Representatives and ran in the 1937 Senate elections, where he was outvoted. During World War II , he was Chairman of the Royal Australian Air Force Recruiting Committee for New South Wales .

Web links

• SW Wigzell: Donald Charles Cameron . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1966–2012 (English).